Distinguished Alumni
The quality of the Juniata experience is ultimately measured by the success of our graduates.
What do these people have in common?
- 1997 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics, Dr. William Phillips
- President and CEO, Swedish Medical Center, Mary White
- Eighth-winningest coach in NFL history, Chuck Knox
- Designer of Chrysler's 426 "Hemi" engine, Thomas Hoover
They are all Juniata College graduates!
From Colleges That Changes Lives
"One group of upperclass students felt so strongly about the quality of their experiences that they asked me, "What's the difference between this school and Amherst?" My answer was that Amherst has more very bright, more sophisticated, and more well-to-do freshman than Juniata, but by the time they're seniors the situation has been reversed. The Juniata seniors' talents have been doubled and sharpened, and they have been better equipped to cope, to adapt, and to take risks - things they will have to do in this new world."
Loren Pope
Featured Alumni
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Timothy L. Achor-Hoch '86 Art Director, Orvis Catalog
Michael D. Appleby '84 Senior VP, QVC
Scott M. Beatty '91 Writer for Batman, Batgirl, and Green Lantern, DC Comics
Robert M. Biter, M.D. '92 Playwright; one of 50 2000 American Medical Association Outstanding Young Medical Professional Award winners
Ronald R. Blanck, D.O. '63 Appointed by the Secretary of Defense to chair the Board of Regents, Uniformed Services University - Military Medical School; member of the VA Advisory Committee on VA Disability Compensation and Related Benefits; retired Surgeon General of the U.S. Army
William H. Boswell '83 Chief Technology Officer, E-markets Inc.
Nicholas S. Bower, D.O. '00 Initiated clinics in Ecuador & Guatemala to teach better health care; received Juniata College's Health Profession Heroes Award in recognition of his humanitarian efforts.
Sammy K. Buo '73 Director, Africa II Division in the Department of Political Affairs, United Nations
Steven A. Camarota, Ph.D. '87 Director, The Research Center for Immigration Studies, Washington, D.C.
Linda Ramsay Casey '85 Editor, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Pentagon
Casey R. Craig '97 Vice President, Fidelity Investments
Thomas C. Creighton II '67 House of Representatives, Pennsylvania
Heidi M. Cullen, Ph.D. '92 Climate Central, Princeton University; Climate expert and former host of " Forecast Earth with Dr. Heidi Cullen " , The Weather Channel; former scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research and the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction.
Robert J. Cunnion III '77 Senior Vice President of Human Rescources, Ryland Homes
Tricia B. Cypher '97 Vice Consul of U.S. Consulate, Czech Republic
Bruce Davis '65 Executive Director, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
Randall C. Deike '88 Vice President for Enrollment, New York University
Donald L. Detwiler '64 President, New Enterprise Stone & Lime (49th largest road contractor in the U.S.)
Renee D. Diehl '76 Professor of physics, Penn State University; Fulbright Fellowship in March 2007; Winner, 2006 Outstanding Service Award from the Women in the Sciences and Engineering (WISE) Institute at Penn State
Robert A. Dintruff '77 Director, Global Care Inititatives - Abbott Laboratories Fund
Erik P. Du Mont '97 National Field Director, Alaska Wilderness League (protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge)
Nathaniel E. P. Ehrlich, Esquire '80 Member of the Board of Directors for the Professional Athletes Foundation; Partner, PA law office of Anapol, Schwartz, Weiss, Cohan, Feldman & Smalley, P.C., Reading, PA
Nicole Dirato Engard '01 Jenkins Law Library web manager; creator of highly efficient intranet library system of communication
Martin A. Ewi '99 Consultant on Terrorism and Security, African Union in Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia; Joan Kroc Scholarship for Peace and International Conflict Studies winner, University of Notre Dame
Craig R. Faczan '95 Director, Business Development, Micro Solutions Enterprises
William S. Fegan '48 Winner, 2007 New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts
Donna Fiedler, Ph.D.'69 Fellow, American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress Disorder
Sarah Young Fisher '75 President, Kuntz Lesher Capital; Co-author, " The Complete Idiot's Guide to Personal Finance in Your 20s and 30s "
Mark P. Francischetti '76 Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Americas - Tech Team Global
Karen Stone Fritz '77 Vice President, Program Development and Syndication WETA TV; Creator, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer and Washington Week
Ronald L. Fugate '79 President/CEO of Alacer Corp.
Henry R. Gibbel '81 President and Chief Operating Officer of Lititz Mutual Insurance Company
Henry H. Gibbel '57 CEO, Lititz Mutual Insurance Company; National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) Chairman's Award winner
Danielle Rupp Gladfelter '87 Sallie Mae Award winner (given to the 100 best teachers in the nation)
Carl D. Glaeser '77 Senior Operating Executive, Palladian Advisors
Robert W. Godshall '55 House of Representatives, Pennsylvania
Raymond C. Grabiak, Ph.D. '72 President, Gateway Chemical Technology (played a significant technical leadership role in the development of second generation manufacturing processes for Roundup)
Jodie Monger Gray '88 President and founder, Customer Relationship Metrics, L.C. (a certified woman-owned business) - The company's External Quality Monitoring program received 2007 Product of the Year by Call Center Magazine; Frost and Sullivan 2008 Contact Center Application of the Year Award
Tonya McClucas Grimes '90 Sallie Mae Award winner (given to the 100 best teachers in the nation)
Erwin L. Hahn, Ph.D. '43 Professor Emeritus, University of California - Berkeley; one of five Juniata alumni members of the National Academy of Sciences; WOLF Foundation Prize in Physics winner; inventor of the " spin echo " method of nuclear paramagnetic resonance
Barry J. Halbritter '65 President, Midstate Tool & Supply, Inc.
Ann M. Hardy '76 Epidemiologist; Chief, Illness and Disability Statistics Branch - National Center for Health Statistics
Peter E. Hauer '86 Senior Administrative Lab Manager, Johns Hopkins University
Frank M. Hein '81 Director of Communications, Bombardier Transportation, Berlin, Germany
David M. Hercules, Ph.D. '54 Centennial Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University; recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Prize
William K. Hershberger, Ph.D. '63 Director, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture's National Center for Cool and Cold Water Aquaculture
Kristin N. Hershey-Smith '00 Three-time Women's Division III Volleyball First Team All-American; 2000 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship winner
Jason M. Heyd '94 Chief Operations Architect, Lycos, Inc.
David J. Hogan '61 Senior Managing Director, Mannheim,LLC, New York
Thomas M. Hoover '53 Designer, Chrysler Hemi engine
John D. Irvin, M.D., Ph.D. '68 Retired VP, Global Research & Development, Johnson & Johnson+Merck Consumer Division; President, American Academy of Pharmaceutical Physicians
Eric C. Jensen, Ph.D. '77 Senior Research Fellow, Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly and Company
Alexander M. Jones, III '90 Managing Editor, New York Daily News
Janet L. Kauffman, Ph.D. '67 Author of nine books including her latest book of poems - Five on Fiction
Michael J. Klag, M.D., M.P.H. '74 H. '08, Dean, The Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
Charles R. Knox '54, H.1983 H. '83 NFL's eighth winningest coach
William C. Koeppen '01 McDonald Douglas Fellowship for graduate study in planetary sciences
Scott E. Kofmehl '03 Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Department of State, Mexico City; Ph.D., Department of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science; pickering Fellow, U.S. State Department; one of four recent National Security Education Scholarship winners
Carl A. Koval '74 Director, Boulder Energy Initiative, University of Colorado
Heinz Kreft '80 Senior Strategic Analyst/Diplomatic Fellow, German Institute for International and Security Studies, Berlin
John Kuriyan, Ph.D. '81 The Chancellor's Professor of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; one of five Juniata alumni members of the National Academy of Sciences; Merck Award for exceptional achievements in and contributions to structural biology from The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)
Kim D. Lamon '74 President/Chief Scientific Officer of Valeant Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Carli Dale Lehr '05 2004 American Volleyball Coaches Association Division III Player of the Year and ESPN The Magazine College Division - Academic All-American of the Year 2004 recipient, Head Women's Volleyball Coach Dickinson College
John S. Long, Ph.D. '73 Chancellor's Professor of Sociology, Indiana University; elected to the Sociological Research Association.
Mark S. Lore '80 President and CEO, Ride-Away (business that modifies vehicles and adaptive equipment for people with disabilities); Business Excellence Award (transportation category), New Hampshire Business Review, winner
Fred E. Lytle, Ph.D '64 Professor of Chemistry, Purdue University; Founding Fellow, Purdue Teaching Academy; " 1996 Indiana Professor of the Year. "
James L. Madara, M.D.'71 CEO, University of Chicago Medical Center; Vice President, Medical Affairs, Dean, Biological Sciences Division and the Pritzker School of Medicine and Chief Executive Officer, University of Chicago; President, American Board of Pathology
Peter C. Marzio, Ph.D '65 H. 2009 Executive Director, Houston Museum of Fine Arts
Fred C. Mason, Jr. '73 Director of Strategy and Planning for Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, Caterpillar Corporation
Wossenyelesh Mazengia '01 Foreign Service Officer, US Dept. of State; serving in the US Embassy, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Fulbright Scholar, one of 20 Juniata students to have won the St. Andrews Society Scholarship - one fully paid year of study in a Scottish university, Pickering Fellow
Peggy D. McCardle '69 Associate Chief, Child Development and Behavior Branch, National Institue of Child Health and Human Development
Rebecca J. McClaine, M.D. '00 General Surgeon, University of Cincinnati Hospital; member of 2000 USA Today Academic All-American Team
Carol A. McFate, C.F.A. '75 Chief Investment Officer, Xerox Corporation
David J. McKean, Ph.D. '67 Chair, Department of Immunology, Mayo Graduate School; research specialty - Molecular Immunochemistry
Robert S. McMinn II '79 Chief Operating Officer, Kish Bancorp
Kerry R. Metzger '74 Representative, Ohio Legislature
Wayne M. Meyers, M.D., Ph.D. '47 Retired Mycobacteriology Branch Chief; recognized leader in the fight against leprosy
Harriet Richardson Michel '65 President, National Minority Supplier Development Council
Kimberly Manspeaker Miller '92 President and CEO, Beaver Dam Community Hospital, Beaver Dam, WI
Gregory S. Molchany '86 Senior Embedded Systems Expert with the Dept. of Defense; received 2007 Presidential Rank Award for Distinguised Senior Professional
David J. Molchany '83 Chief Information Officer, Fairfax Co. Va.; named one of Governing Magazine's, 2003 Public Officials of the Year
John H. Montgomery '86 Managing Director of Susquehanna Bank's Pennsylvania Division
Howard M. Nathan '75 Directs the nation's largest organ donor program, Delaware Valley, Pa.
Robert W. Neumar, M.D., Ph.D. '85 Distinguished neuroscientist, part of Dr. Lance Becker's Penn lab team on mitochondria research as key element for saving lives
Matthew J. Newman '06 Technical Production Manager, iCue educational website, NBC News- " 2008 WebAward for the Best News Site "
Christopher P. Palmer, Ph.D.'85 Associate Professor, University of Montana, winner of 1999 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists
John P. Parks '62 President, American Academy of Actuaries
P. Andrew Pearson, M.D. '83 Opthamologist, University of Kentucky; co-inventor of the delivery device for drugs implanted in the eye
H. Christopher Peterson, Ph.D. '74 Agribusiness Economist, Michigan State University; First holder of the Nowlin Chair in Consumer-Responsive Agriculture
Maxine E. Phillips '67 Managing Editor, Dissent Magazine
William D. Phillips, Ph.D. '70 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics; one of five Juniata alumni members of the National Academy of Sciences; one of approximately 80 scientists who are members of the Academician of the Pontifical Academy of Science
Chumpol Phornprapha, '65, H.1996 Chairman, S.P. International Company, Ltd., Thailand
Walter C. Prozialeck, Ph.D. '74 Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmacology, Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine; first recipient of the Irvin M. Korr Award presented by the American Osteopathic Association for Excellence in Basic Biomedical Research
Linda Cheng Pu '70 General Manager and Senior Vice President, North Asia Trans Global, Taiwan
David Pysnik '68 2003 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching, Sidney High School, Sidney, N.Y.
Kristen Holloway Querriera '97 Founder, Operation Troop Appreciation (non-profit organization that sends packages and letters to U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan); named to Redbook magazine's 2005 list of 'Mothers & Shakers' (honoring women for grassroots activism); received Presidential Award from President Bush
James P. Reber '69 President & CEO, St. Rita's Medical Center, Lima, OH
Francis M. Richards '76 CIO, Geisinger Health System
Dewayne E. Rideout '80 Former Senior Executive Officer at Lucent Technologies, Sprint, and Gateway
Robert E. Rose '61 Former Chief Justice, Nevada Supreme Court
Gary R. Rowe '67 President/Owner of Rowe, Inc., recipient of a George Foster Peabody Award for his work with CNN; Gold Award of the National Association for Interpretation for his work with the National Park Service
Patricia M. Ryan '85 Senior Vice President, Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital and Rehab Affiliates
Justin M. Samra '01 Manager of Corporate Partnerships, Philadelphia Eagles
Christoph Schwemmlein '84 Managing Director, Klocker Brothers, Germany
Jennifer A. Sidleck '03 Executive Director, Friends of Chesterfield's Riverfront (non-profit organization formed to promote and enhance the Appomattox and James Rivers), Chestefield, VA
Philip J. Sipling '69 Executive Vice President, Martin Marietta Materials
Ronald M. Smelser, Ph.D. '64 Noted historian and president of the Conference Group for Central European History, James Clayton Professorship at the University of Utah, co-authored the book, " The Myth of the Eastern Front: the the Nazi-Soviet War in American Popular Culture " , co-organizer of an international conference on the Holocaust
Carl A. Solomon '85 Senior Technical Fellow, Boeing Advanced Information Systems Colombia, MD; " Pride at Boeing " award for contributions to Computer-Aided Passenger Prescreening System II proposal for Homeland Security & Services
Robert J. Solomon '60 Vice Chair, Marsh USA, Inc.
Gregory L. Stahl, Ph.D., F.A.H.A. '84 Professor of Anesthesia (Physiology) and Principal Investigator, Ctr. for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion Injury Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Paul Allen Chair in Anesthesiology Department; Scientific Advisory Board member, Catalyst Biosciences, Inc.
Timothy D. Statton '72 Retired Executive Vice President & Director, Bechtel Group, Inc.; President, Bechtel Power Corporation
R. Scott Stephenson, Ph.D. '87 Director of Collections and Interpretation at The American Revolution Center of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
Gretchen R. Stull '04 Top Ten Teachers Award, Auburn University; contributing author of Mugglenet.com's Guide to Harry Potter 7: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Falls in Love, and How the Adventure Finally Ends
Klare S. Sunderland '56 President, Sun Enterprises, Inc.
Kim D. Swindell, M.D. '97 2008 Douglas S. Moodie Award for Outstanding Research by the Institute of Pediatrics, Cleveland Clinic
Maurice C. Taylor, Ph.D. '72 Dean, Graduate School, Morgan State University; President, Council of Historically Black Graduate Schools; Chair of the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) Board
Thomas E. Terndrup, M.D. '77 Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center; Associate Dean for Clinical Research at the College of Medicine
Michael A. Trim '76 Director of Photography, Winner of the 1995 Best Cinematography MTV Awards for the Rolling Stones Video, Screen credits include videos for Janet Jackson to commercials for Nike and Coca-Cola
Milan P. Tweardy '82 Chief Operating Officer of Merrill Lynch Capital Markets Group, Switzerland
Leslie A. Vogt '05 2005 Fulbright Scholar, 2004 Goldwater Scholar, Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry - Harvard
Janet Edgar Walbert, Ed.D. '78 Vice President for Student Affairs, Arcadia University and President of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators
Jeremy G. Weber '05 2005 Fulbright Scholar, Academic All-American, USA Today's All USA College Academic Team
Thomas C. Werner, Ph.D '64 Chemistry Professor, Union College (N.Y.); 2002 American Chemical Society Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution
Ronald W. Wertz '59 President Emeritus, The Hillman Foundation
Miriam Smith Wetzel, Ph.D. '52 Harvard Medical School faculty; member of the team that developed the new medical school curriculum; Miss Pennsylvania 1952
Mary M. White '73 President and CEO, Swedish Medical Center, Denver
Harriet Nichols Windsor '62 Delaware Secretary of State; received the 2001 " Order of the First State, " the highest honor a governor can bestow upon a citizen; 1999 Delaware Mother of the Year
Gerald N. Wogan, Ph.D. '51 Professor of Toxicology, MIT; one of five Juniata alumni members of the National Academy of Sciences; Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology, 2005 Charles M. Mott Prize for his contribution to the prevention of cancer
Kristian K. G. Wolf '01 CEO and President of German American Chamber of Commerce of the Southern U.S.
Robert M. Wood, M.D. '70 Orthopedic Surgeon, included in the 2003 Guide to American Top Surgeons
Brandy M. Workinger '02 2002 NCAA Women of the Year - Pennsylvania and recipient of an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship
Friedhelm H. Wulczyn, Ph.D '75 Chapin Hall Research Fellow - University of Chicago, internationally recognized expert on child welfare policy; received the 2005 National Association of Public Child Welfare Administration's Peter Forsythe Award, given annually to a person showing leadership in public child welfare
John T. Yates, Jr., Ph.D. '56 Retired R.K. Mellon Professor of Chemistry and Physics, Director of Surface Science Center, University of Pittsburgh; one of five Juniata alumni members of the National Academy of Sciences; winner of the 1987 American Chemical Society Arthur Adamson Award for contributions to surface chemistry; winner of the Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry sponsored by E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
Sharon Simpson Yohn, Ph.D. '99 1999 USA Today Academic All American Team; Goldwater Scholar; one of 300 national EPA Star Fellows; Co-director of Juniata's Raystown Field Station, Lecturer in Environmental Science & Studies
Peggy Howsare Young '62 Founder, President and CEO, NOVA Research Corporation
Amber L. Zahorchak '99 Team Leader and the only American in the Nestle International Audit Group
A. Javaid Zeerak '06 Head of Program, Afghanistan Rural Enterprise Development Program (AREDP) Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) Kabul, Afghanistan; Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Myron L. Zimmerman, Ph.D. '74 Vice President of Engineering for Mindreef, Inc., Hollis, NH
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